by Boothism | Essays & Commentary, Media, social justice, Uncategorized, Writing
Tomorrow night marks the 1 year anniversary of the murder of Oscar Grant by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and emotions in Oakland are running high. From renewed anger over police brutality, to BART announcing it will increase the number of police on call for...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Writing
I found out a couple of days ago that Kirkus Review is shutting it’s doors and it kinda felt like someone had hit me in the chest with a hardback copy of Infinite Jest, ie. it stung, more than a little. And I know that outside of authors and folks in the book...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Media, social justice, Writing
(Props to The Hood Nerd for his original post.) CNN, we have a problem. By now most people have heard of Derrion Albert, the 16 year old Chicago honor student killed in the middle of a gang brawl last week. The incident was caught on video and has sparked all the...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Writing
Alright, I’ve been thinking about this for the last few weeks as I’ve been rewinding the hell out of Jay Z’s latest and I want to get a couple things out of the way from the jump. 1) Autotune is hella overused and kind of annoying after the 50th...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Music, Writing
Alright, this is depressing as fuck. I first heard the news as a rumor between two cats outside the corner store about 4 hours ago on my way downtown. “Yo, you heard Michael Jackson died?” “Naw, man I heard that was just a rumor.” A small lump...
